Matt Weiner
@mattweiner19.bsky.social
Philosopher at UVM. he/any pronouns. Likes cats and weird improvised music. World's leading connoisseur of Dark Hi & Lois. Last name rhymes with "meaner." Self-photos are of Art Garfunkel.
registering some annoyance at the passage just before Brett's screenshot. One could tell a story where "To be F is to be G" usually implicates that being G is meant as an illuminating account of being F, but where that implicature gets defeated for "To be F is to be F" because it's obviously false.
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
registering some annoyance at the passage just before Brett's screenshot. One could tell a story where "To be F is to be G" usually implicates that being G is meant as an illuminating account of being F, but where that implicature gets defeated for "To be F is to be F" because it's obviously false.
I think? the paper is about identity criteria for predicates. he gives reflexivity and Leibniz's Law as axioms for identity. Then there's a lot of lambda stuff
![Ref F [triple bar] F
LL (F [triple bar] G) [arrow] ([phi] arrow (G/?F)phi)
where (G/?F)phi) is a sentence like phi except hta tone or more occurrences of F are replaced by occurrences of G, in such a way that no variables free in F triple bar G are bound in phi or (G/?F)phi).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gpzumzyrdogumlixcztwtaxq/bafkreih7jseiwjkaloahocngpwdni3d6yss4vnzgjpwoel54by5erd6kq4@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I think? the paper is about identity criteria for predicates. he gives reflexivity and Leibniz's Law as axioms for identity. Then there's a lot of lambda stuff
I don't think "abstract portrait" is a complete oxymoron, but it conveys something like Nude Descending a Staircase
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I don't think "abstract portrait" is a complete oxymoron, but it conveys something like Nude Descending a Staircase
Lois tries to give Ditto an eating disorder. 😬 9/10 QDUs
(also at his age Ditto should probably be growing more than half an inch between checkups?)
(also at his age Ditto should probably be growing more than half an inch between checkups?)
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Lois tries to give Ditto an eating disorder. 😬 9/10 QDUs
(also at his age Ditto should probably be growing more than half an inch between checkups?)
(also at his age Ditto should probably be growing more than half an inch between checkups?)
Radhika Jones: "well well well, not so easy to find a Vanity Fair editor who doesn't suck shit, huh?"
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Radhika Jones: "well well well, not so easy to find a Vanity Fair editor who doesn't suck shit, huh?"
I'm right though. I'm completely right. Fuck Dagwood Bumstead. All my homies hate Dagwood Bumstead. If Dagwood Bumstead has no haters then I am deceased
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I'm right though. I'm completely right. Fuck Dagwood Bumstead. All my homies hate Dagwood Bumstead. If Dagwood Bumstead has no haters then I am deceased
two strips in a row with smiles on the same panel! may have to retire that bit. 4/10 QDUs because Lois is taking this very hard. also is the coffee very caffeinated or very spicy? I'm not up on my xxxxtreme coffee.
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
two strips in a row with smiles on the same panel! may have to retire that bit. 4/10 QDUs because Lois is taking this very hard. also is the coffee very caffeinated or very spicy? I'm not up on my xxxxtreme coffee.
fine. two times Chip helps out. can only assume Trixie has been in bed the whole time, and the twins being up after a double feature etc. is the general standard of Chip's babysitting. but the parents aren't even annoyed! smiling on the same panel to the end! 0/10 QDUs
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
fine. two times Chip helps out. can only assume Trixie has been in bed the whole time, and the twins being up after a double feature etc. is the general standard of Chip's babysitting. but the parents aren't even annoyed! smiling on the same panel to the end! 0/10 QDUs
uh. um. uh. confirmed, from a 2012 interview with Amol Sharma in the Wall Street Journal, about whether he would be a future prime minister. then he refused to apologize for the 2002 Gujarat pogrom.
November 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
uh. um. uh. confirmed, from a 2012 interview with Amol Sharma in the Wall Street Journal, about whether he would be a future prime minister. then he refused to apologize for the 2002 Gujarat pogrom.
it is, after all, a Christmas story
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
it is, after all, a Christmas story
Chip is using Trixie to pick up girls. Trixie is actively pimping Chip out. Chip is somehow pusing Trixie around in a combination highchair/stepladder. Everyone seems happy with this arrangment! 0/10 QDUs
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Chip is using Trixie to pick up girls. Trixie is actively pimping Chip out. Chip is somehow pusing Trixie around in a combination highchair/stepladder. Everyone seems happy with this arrangment! 0/10 QDUs
mercenary exchange leads to anxiety. 4/10 QDUs. no higher because the school's anti-bullying efforts are successful.
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
mercenary exchange leads to anxiety. 4/10 QDUs. no higher because the school's anti-bullying efforts are successful.
altruistic cooperation runs aground on lack of communication. Chip is Garfielding in the first panel, it doesn't make sense to ask Trixie that because she can only thought-balloon back! 2/10 QDUs
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
altruistic cooperation runs aground on lack of communication. Chip is Garfielding in the first panel, it doesn't make sense to ask Trixie that because she can only thought-balloon back! 2/10 QDUs
the protagonists of the last three movies you saw are busting you out of jail
...no one has ever been more cooked
...no one has ever been more cooked
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
the protagonists of the last three movies you saw are busting you out of jail
...no one has ever been more cooked
...no one has ever been more cooked
an abstract from noted philosopher Alex Byrne, posted without further comment (for now)
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
an abstract from noted philosopher Alex Byrne, posted without further comment (for now)
Dawg: The Dark Side. Nah this is 1/10 QDUs, Jeffrey is a dick
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Dawg: The Dark Side. Nah this is 1/10 QDUs, Jeffrey is a dick
This seems to be a context in which Chip needs to wear some sport coat, but not this one. It's a context where Lois is concerned about Chip bringing shame on the family by reminding the town of Hi's hobo father... eh, not really, 2/10 QDUs
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This seems to be a context in which Chip needs to wear some sport coat, but not this one. It's a context where Lois is concerned about Chip bringing shame on the family by reminding the town of Hi's hobo father... eh, not really, 2/10 QDUs
haha sorry. I know jack about Commodus, but having run across him in Rick Riordan I looked at his wikipedia article and thought there might be room for a contrarian take in there
![Upon his ascension, Commodus devalued the Roman currency. He reduced the weight of the denarius from 96 per Roman pound to 105 per Roman pound (3.85 grams to 3.35 grams). He also reduced the silver purity from 79 percent to 76 percent – the silver weight dropping from 2.57 grams to 2.34 grams. In 186, he further reduced the purity and silver weight to 74 percent and 2.22 grams respectively, being 108 to the Roman pound.[23] His reduction of the denarius during his rule was the largest since the empire's first devaluation during Nero's reign.
commentary: a Keynesian ahead of his time](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gpzumzyrdogumlixcztwtaxq/bafkreia45jyb6rr7bjqkadpwdtlukfuuwc7sjsukk4lcw2xewji7eslkya@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
haha sorry. I know jack about Commodus, but having run across him in Rick Riordan I looked at his wikipedia article and thought there might be room for a contrarian take in there
![self. But what is the self? The self is a relation
which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is
from, appropriately enough, The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gpzumzyrdogumlixcztwtaxq/bafkreiecwxcknqhb35cumgmvkuz6zds2jyul3ff42rhz4c7lcqbxolcdky@jpeg)
let's... let's just assume Ditto is young enough for this to be cute, OK? was going to put some QDUs on this because his parents are so unimpressed but at a certain point heavy-lidded annoyance at your kids' antics is normal and healthy
as has been pointed out, they do *not* remember the 70s
as has been pointed out, they do *not* remember the 70s
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
let's... let's just assume Ditto is young enough for this to be cute, OK? was going to put some QDUs on this because his parents are so unimpressed but at a certain point heavy-lidded annoyance at your kids' antics is normal and healthy
as has been pointed out, they do *not* remember the 70s
as has been pointed out, they do *not* remember the 70s
well the Arkansas law does not provide a minimum, but the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act does. This movie is disrespecting the troops. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
well the Arkansas law does not provide a minimum, but the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act does. This movie is disrespecting the troops. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
do I have better things to do than look up Arkansas law on special elections to the House? absolutely. am I going to do them instead of looking up that law? absolutely not.
(calling bullshit already though, there's no way they can get ballots out in six weeks)
(calling bullshit already though, there's no way they can get ballots out in six weeks)
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
do I have better things to do than look up Arkansas law on special elections to the House? absolutely. am I going to do them instead of looking up that law? absolutely not.
(calling bullshit already though, there's no way they can get ballots out in six weeks)
(calling bullshit already though, there's no way they can get ballots out in six weeks)